Meet the team

As Secretary of CPA, my work mainly focuses on governance and making sure we are compliant with charity law and running effectively. One thing I really value about CPA is the cultures of care we create, and I strive to embody that in other parts of my life.

I am an activist and artist who cares deeply about community, nature and social justice. Outside of CPA, I work in the active travel and charity sectors.

I coordinate CPA’s Therapeutic Support network, bringing together the practitioners who offer free support to people experiencing climate and ecological distress. Much of my role is about helping practitioners feel connected and supported as they accompany others through something that touches all of our lives. I’ve been a psychotherapist for more than 20 years. I’m also the founder of HSPconnect, a community created to help highly sensitive people find one another, build friendships and feel less alone. My work is shaped by Transactional Analysis, climate psychology, Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, rewilding, end-of-life work, and my ongoing learning around decolonisation and co-liberation. I’m interested in what helps people stay human, connected and able to act in difficult times. I believe grief, anger, love, humour and hope all need a place, alongside a more expansive sense of ourselves as participants in a complex, living system.

I am trying to spread our ideas in the german language realm.

Since 2026 I am a CPA board member. I would love to bring in more playful and personal endeavours – connected to arts – looking out for a counterweight of a psychology centered approach. When I arrived at CPA a few years ago I loved the mixture of psychologists, artists and activists – looking out for ways to understand reality and engage.

I am a Sociologist, I have been working with media for more than 40 years now and I am looking out for ways of kinship with the more-than human world.

"Facing difficult truths – deepening our love for this world" could be my motto in life – in case I had one.

I have been a person-centred counsellor since 2001and continue to work in the NHS and private practice in Scotland. I've also worked in a university counselling programme in Edinburgh since and supervised other counsellors since 2010.

Before that I trained as an ecologist and have become increasingly concerned about both the evidence of climate change and the lack of awareness and response from our institutions and culture. I joined the XR protests and then realised my most useful offer to the movement would be to support other activists, so I also joined the CPA, where I've offered therapeutic support sessions and facilitate climate cafés. Through doing this I've realised there are both blindspots in my awareness and in the conventions of therapy so I undertook and completed Climate Aware Practitioner training via Psychology for a Safe Climate in Spring 2023.

My normal work frame is brief and so particularly suited to the kind of work we do in therapeutic support, and as an activist with my own experiences of burnout and re-engagement I have been able to work succinctly with others in the movement.

I'm one of CPA's youth coordinators. I'm a clinical psychologist with over 20 years' experience working in the NHS and clinical psychology training programmes. I work with the other youth coordinators and other members to nurture an intergenerational culture within CPA, and to develop our offerings for young people and the adults who support them. I am keen to support understandings of of our responses to climate breakdown in ways that support connections with power and wider contexts, including adultism and intergenerational injustice. I am a parent to two wonderful children, and I try and support local actions and community projects when I have the time (doesn't seem to be often!). I work three days a week on the Leicester Clinical Psychology training programme. Listening to music is one of my main coping strategies for my own climate feelings, and I'm looking forward to when I can tell my children to turn their music down, rather than the other way around.

I became involved with CPA about 10 years ago as my awareness of climate-related concerns elided with my interest in how we manage our emotions in our lives. Since then I have been actively involved in the development of climate cafe listening circles (CCLC) and the creation of a growing team of CCLC trained facilitators. I have just taken up the role of co-chair of CPA and am anticipating a stimulating and stretching time easing into this space and working collaboratively with the CPA Board and membership to sense and steer the next stage of CPA's life.

I work for CPA on the ICRA (Inner Climate Response Alliance) partnership. My work there is supporting the development of a Community of Practice for those who are engaging in inner work in response to the Climate Crisis, and creating supportive infrastructure and connections for those wishing to begin or deepen their engagement with this work. My background is in community food growing - working across city farms, urban market gardens and other green spaces to build environmental and community resilience at the grassroots. I'm also a facilitator and emergent conflict transformation mediator, seeing relational skills building as a really important piece of the work towards a better world. I live on a boat on the River Lea and enjoy making music and dancing whenever I can.

I am a climate activist, currently working as a Project Manager at SOS UK, an education charity working to empower students and educators to create a fairer and more sustainable future. I currently specialise in domestic energy efficiency, tenants’ rights, and creating a private-rented sector that better supports both people and the planet. I graduated in Psychology from the University of York, where I developed a deep interest in how information, misinformation, and social media shape our understanding of the world. This sparked my interest in climate psychology and eco-anxiety, and I am excited to bring together my passions for psychology and climate action in my position on the CPA board and through my work with the CPA community.

I am interested in decolonizing therapy, our minds and our bodies as a radical form of activism. I am a reflective person who is not often seen on boards. I believe in the richness of our diversity both human and other than human in creating rich eco-systems. I want to cultivate generative spaces which allow for difference and support communicating and finding ways to relate and imagine different futures. I am part of the youth support team and decolonizing group and, I am about to complete the training in climate café facilitation. Outside of CPA, I am a child and adolescent psychotherapist, I also am involves in community actions. I wanted to get more involved in CPA, so I took the leap.

I look after all things comms at CPA. It has been said that addressing the climate crisis is now a communications challenge, and I'm interested in the role climate psychology plays in delivering messaging that actually moves people to act. I love finding creative ways to amplify CPA’s work so it reaches an ever-wider audience. I also lead communications for the Inner Climate Response Alliance, CPA’s National Lottery funded initiative.

Outside of CPA, I'm involved in local community action, and I'm inspired by creativity and movement as keys to sustainable change. I first came across CPA while setting up a local Climate Café with a group of friends. After completing CPA’s Climate Café Listening Circle Training, I knew I wanted to get more involved - and here I am.

At the Climate Psychology Alliance, I'm a facilitator, speaker, researcher and board member, and I'm also involved in the coordinating and finance groups. Outside CPA, I'm a performance maker and a lecturer at the University of Salford, and currently studying part-time for an MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. What really interests me is how creativity, climate psychology and the sciences can come together to help us explore how we live with and respond to the climate and ecological crisis. Genuine collaboration is at the heart of everything. I facilitate workshops, talks and reflective spaces that support people to engage with climate emotions and psychology in ways that feel meaningful, connected and constructive. The question that continually sits with me is: what helps us stay present with uncertainty while nurturing resilience, imagination and a deeper relationship with the living world?

I’m the Administration and Membership Coordinator at CPA, I support the smooth running of the organisation across administration, membership, communications, governance and events. I particularly enjoy creating welcoming experiences for members, improving systems and processes and helping turn ideas into action behind the scenes.

What interests me most is how climate action, psychology and community come together to create meaningful change. I’m passionate about building strong, connected communities where people feel valued, supported and able to play an active role in shaping a more just and sustainable future.

I think being a Board member has made me a better member of CPA as a whole. I got interested in the therapeutic support offered to those suffering from eco anxiety and now offer the three 'no charge' sessions available, sometimes followed by longer term low cost therapy. I am currenly involved in Meeting Nature, a group relations conference to be held in a forest in the Netherlands in September. It is sponsored and supported by CPA. I co founded a Deep Adaptation Group 3 years ago and it remains an important community for me, to help with not turning away from difficult truths.

I love being a part of CPA because of the people, our values, our work, and our supportive culture. I have a few roles which allow me to do what I love: building communities; developing relationships - internally and externally; designing and delivering talks and workshops; developing others to do this work, and doing occasional media work. This includes co-leading CCLC facilitator training and supervision, co-ordinating talks and workshops, and leading CPA’s “Collapse Conversations" group which I started in 2025. I also support clients in bringing climate psychology deep into their culture to build collective resilience. In 2025 I became Psychology Adviser to the National Emergency Briefing (NEB) leadership team, and built the CPA/NEB partnership, workshops and training materials to support the roll out of the People’s Emergency Briefings and widen CPA’s impact. Outside of work I still work! I host a monthly People Planet Pint group, facilitate for other local eco groups, write for the local newspaper, am a member of the Town Council's Climate and Ecology Working Group, and offer emotional support for activist groups and individuals. My pure relaxation time is spent going to festivals, live gigs, the theatre, enjoying all kinds of arts, and walking in the Cotswolds where I currently live.

I'm interested in enhancing how groups collaborate and make decisions, how they "stay with us-ness'. Elinor Ostrum's core design principles applied to pro-social activity.: disputing the "tragedy of the commons" And I want to draw attention to the collective agency of the concept of the ecological self. I enjoy ceremony and earth based ritual, and want to collaborate with others in songwriting, performance and entertainment. I am a counselling psychologist in private practice since early 90's specialising in ACT psychotherapy and training.

I'm a psychotherapist with a long previous background in the arts. I’m passionate about liberatory and queer approaches to social and ecological justice, and I believe the idea of the isolated self-sustaining individual is a myth. Inner and outer are not separate - individual, social, cultural and ecological are interdependent and always touching.

My counselling approach is existentially-and ecologically- informed. I've done a lot of work exploring feelings and responses around climate and ecological change, and I co-founded the annual day for ecological remembrance, lostspeciesday.org.

Needless to say, I love being a board member at the Climate Psychology Alliance, as part of a peer network where eco emotions are welcomed and honoured, and all sorts of great research is happening and being supported.

I've been a member of CPA since about 2015. I became more actively involved in 2019 when I was doing a doctorate on the dynamics of climate organisations, and working with Gillian Broad to develop the climate café model. I find CPA an intellectual and emotional home, where I can be myself and share the ways in which the climate and polycrisis are affecting me. As co-chair I'm interested in supporting fellow members to make their own contributions to climate psychology; in helping CPA become financially independent; and in our continuing work to explore and dismantle the colonial structures that are within us and around us.

I’m Ronke, and I work with CPA to create spaces where people can connect, reflect, and take meaningful action in response to the climate and ecological crisis. My work focuses on community building, youth engagement, events, and collaborations that bring together people from different backgrounds to explore what climate action can look and feel like when it is rooted in care, creativity, and relationship. I’m particularly interested in climate justice, collective resilience, intergenerational dialogue, and the role that food, culture, and storytelling can play in strengthening communities. Outside of CPA, I run community food events and retreats, and I’m always curious about how we can build more connected, joyful, and sustainable ways of living together.

I’m Saleh Mohamed, and in my role as ICRA Co-ordinator and a clinical psychologist, I’m passionate about supporting young people. My role sits at the intersection of inner and outer work, helping create spaces where people can make sense of what they’re feeling and stay connected in systems that can be exhausting. At CPA and through the Inner Climate Response Alliance, I’m especially interested in communication that informs but more importantly reaches people. I wonder how we can hold spaces that engage with complexity, speak to emotion, and still invite movement. I believe climate action is as much a relational challenge as it is a practical one, and I’m drawn to approaches that bring community, imagination, and meaning into the work. I have found the impacts of the climate crisis lead to pathologising labels on our inner world and hope to shift this perspective to acknowledge these emotional impacts as reasonable and human responses. Outside of my formal roles, I stay grounded through movement and the everyday reminders that change happens through connection.

I'm an ecopsychologist from Mauritius. My work sits at the intersection of psychology, ecology and social justice, with a particular interest in how people make meaning in times of ecological disruption, collective trauma and uncertainty.

What drew me to CPA is the spaces it creates where thinking and feeling, joy and pain, love and grief can be held and exist all together in multiple shades. I'm also interested in bringing diverse cultural voices into climate psychology and exploring how history, colonial legacies, identity and our relationship with the living world shape our responses to the climate crisis.

Alongside my clinical work, I facilitate reflective spaces, contribute to felt-pieces, and develop nature-based and creative resources that help people reconnect with themselves, each other and the more-than-human world. I believe that meaningful climate action grows from connection, relationships, belonging and our capacity to stay present with what is difficult.

I keep track of income including Membership Fees, Grants, Donations and Talks and Workshops for third parties and expenditure including paying staff, speakers and admin and event costs. I live in France and am retired from paid work which was mainly IT and business management. I have done a lot of drama and some writing of which I am now trying to do more.

I am helping to build our community of students and young members at CPA, creating a space for shared experiences and opportunities for us to connect with one other. Due to the intergenerational nature of the climate crisis and with rates of climate distress increasing in young people around the world, I want to help those of us that feel "burdened" with the weight of climate change feel less alone and turn our eco-emotions into action via the various channels at CPA. As of September 2026, I am also editor of CPA's Climate Crisis Digest publication.

For my day job, I work as a sustainability manager at a charity providing digital services for the education and research sectors. I really enjoy the breadth of my role as sustainability is a fast-paced, evolving and multifaceted field. Outside of this, I also volunteer with my local Greenpeace branch, helping to host events such as clothing swaps and National Emergency Briefing film screenings in my area.